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Leadville Qualifier Training Camp

Get race ready with the Leadville Qualifier Training Camp, this 15 week training program will provide the mental, physical, and tactical tools you need to succeed in the Tahoe Trail 100 – Leadville Qualifier Race, hosted by Northstar California.

Camp Head Coach Julie Young leads on-bike training session, off-bike pedaling technique and tactical discussions, Q and A sessions, and develops the 15 week, comprehensive training plan.

All camp participants will be eligible to submit a 30-second video explaining why you should receive one
free entry into the Leadville 100. Enter-To-Win Free Entry Into the Leadville 100!

This is an opportunity to receive a comprehensive 15 week daily training plan and attend a hands-on camp with Leadville Qualifier veterans and coaches.

The group training plan starts on your registration date and goes through the Tahoe Trail 100 Race on July 22, 2012

With your registration you will receive:
• A daily training program, progressively developed with your workouts delivered via Training Peaks
• Three-Day Camp at Northstar California (home of the Tahoe Trail 100) including: Comprehensive on and off the
bike programming, Lactate threshold testing, Bike fitting, Cycling specific core stability session, Panel of experts discussion
AND MORE!
• On-Bike Training during three-day camp, June 8-10 – Ride on the qualifier course with race veterans, review key
sections on the course with discussions on race tactics and strategy
• Guaranteed entry to the Tahoe Trail 100 Leadville Qualifier Race at Northstar on July 22, AND MORE!
Pricing:
$700 if you register before 5/15; $900 after 5/15.
How to register:
Please stop in or call the Season Pass & Tickets Office,
530.562.2267 or 1.800.GO.NORTH™ (1.800.466.6784).

Gold Country Century, May 12

The Sierra Foothills Cycling Club presents the second annual Gold Country Century. It starts in the Gold Rush town of Auburn, CA and traverses the scenic and rolling foothills of Placer County. A fun filled day of riding and events for the entire family including:

  • 68 Mile Metric Century
  • 33 Mile Half Metric Century
  • Three mile  fun ride for the entire family
  • Kid’s bike/trike ride on Auburn’s new .7 mile park trail
  • BBQ Lunch,  Raffle Prizes &  back by popular demand from last year, live music by the Republicrats!

 

For complete details, please vist goldcountrycentury.com

Sierra Foothill Spring Cycling Camps

                     

Come join me and cycle the Sierra Foothills at their springtime best.

The exquisite Flower Farm Inn in Loomis acts as the hub of the o2fitness spring cycling camps. There you will rest after a day of seeing the sights on two wheels. Comfortable guest cottages accommodate singles or doubles.

Each camp is designed and individually tailored to meet the group’s interest. Camps accommodate individuals to small groups from one day to multiple days. The camp theme – touring, performance training or a hybrid of the two, which is based on each individual group’s goals, dictates the ride itinerary’s terrain, mileage and intensity.  Saddle time is balanced with massage, regenerative yoga and the region’s best dining.

Sample Two Day Camp

Day #1
Cycling specific core stability
Breakfast
Ride – back country roads through rolling farmland, ideal terrain to get the legs turning,  2-3hours
Flower Farm – lunch
Massage
Nap/free-time
Dinner at Hawks

Day #2
Breakfast
Ride –intimate back roads through Auburn, climbing to Colfax – hitting some of best off-the-beaten climbs along the way 3-4hours
Lunch at Flower Farm
Nap/free-time
Regenerative Yoga at the Barn
Dinner at Carpe Vino

The Flower Farm is an ideal location to access a multitude of diverse riding options from flat and rolling farmland to long sustained American River canyon climbs. The Flower Farm’s Coffee House serves a delightful breakfast and lunch as well as scrumptious baked goods and coffee.

What a way to kick start the cycling season.

 

 

Women & Men’s Cat 4s and 5s – Race Tactic Training Session

Here’s a great opportunity to learn about bike racing team tactics and individual tactics, as well as honing in on your bike handling skills.

Please contact Julie Young at jyoung@o2fitness.net  if you are interested in joining or have further questions

Two, two hour sessions, Wednesdays 5:45-7:45pm

Dates:

Session 1 – Wednesday, April 4th

Session 2 – Wednesday, April 18th

Sessions conducted by:

Trainer/Coach: Julie Young

Rio Strada Women’s Team Manager: Beverley McInnes

Rio Strada Team Owner: Ron Rouse

Cost:  $20 for both if you pay in advance – To pay in advance, please submit payment via PayPal to: onespeedbev@gmail.com

$15 for one session.

Parking and start location:

Parking lot off of Humphrey. It’s the parking lot for Traylor Ranch Bird Sanctuary

Course: Training circuit in Loomis beginning at Humphrey Road and English Colony Way, southward on Humphrey (RT to remain on Humphrey at Cowell Rd)  to Citrus Colony Road RT (westward), then to Delmar Avenue RT (northward), back to English Colony.

Tactics Training Session Outline:

Discussions first, then hit the race course for some race scenarios and tactics exercises.

Session 1 – Discussion overview of concepts and on-bike race tactics clinic.

  • Brief review of pack riding skills and safety
  • Protocol – be aggressive but keep things safe
  • Look before you leap
  • Standing (letting up) up in the middle of the pack
  • Drafting
  • Pulling – when do you pull and how long
  • Overlapping wheels
  • Half-wheeling
  • High-speed cornering & descending cornering
  • Covering attacks effectively and efficiently
  • Protecting the team’s designated rider
  • Bridging the gap
    • When/how
    • Timing
    • Make it clean
    • Adhering to team pre-race plan and adapting to plan changes
    • How to reconcile team tactics and race strategy with individual intuition and opportunities

Riding Exercises

  • Practice – attacks, bridging gaps
  • Get into two groups – each group to have a plan and implement in mock race scenario

 Session 2 – Position in the Peloton

  • Where should you be?
  • Safety takes precedence
  • Keep it in perspective – this isn’t the World Champs
  • Where to be, when to be – Front, middle, back
  • Team tactics regarding other racers/teams
    • When to pull in the break, sit in
    • Sit on a break and sprint – is it ok?
    • Should I take up the pace? When and why?
    • Creating Opportunity
      • How Opportunities are made and lost
      • Flats, winds – your teams secret weapon – the quickly, well organized echelon
      • Capitalizing on cross-winds
      • Pre-race Strategy
      • Sprints
        • The art of leading out and sprints

Riding Exercises – leading out and sprinting

NorCal AIDS Cycle 2012

NorCal AIDS Cycle 2012 Training Talk

Saturday, March 31 – 2:00pm at Hot Italian, Sacramento

NorCAl AIDS Cycle 2012 takes place May 17 - 20, cyclists will be riding 330 miles to raise money and awareness for HIV/AIDS service providers in the Sacramento Valley and beyond! See below for a sample course details.

Julie Young will provide a training talk with Q and A to follow. Topics will include -importance of bike fit for injury prevention and improved comfort and performance; perfecting efficient pedaling technique; and the importance of postural strength.  

The training discussion will focus on maximizing the final six weeks of training. The art of tapering – is it all about bonbons, getting horizontal on the couch and watching House Hunters Internatioanl? Nutrition and hydration strategies discussion will include - the importance of setting the foundation weeks and days leading up the event;  nutritional guidelines the week before the ride; and eating and drinking during the ride.  

Join us

NorCal AIDS Cycle Sample Course

Day 1 (95 miles) Begins in Folsom where the first half of the day is spent exploring the rolling terrain of the foothills near Lincoln, Loomis, and Auburn before finishing the day at Gridley in the heart of the Central Valley.

Day 2 (90 miles) Cyclists are able to choose between two different 90-mile routes. Both options include cycling the historic towns of Oroville and Durham before ending the day with a pleasant cruise along the banks of the Sacramento River and evening camp in Colusa. The more challenging option takes cyclists up Table Mt., to add a steep climb, and 10 miles to the day. Cyclists seeking less challenging terrain will cirlce around Table Mt., still enjoying some rolling hills around the mountain’s base.

Days 3 and 4 – The Weekender

Day 3 (85 miles) Begins on the flats and breaks away into rolling hills followed by a seven mile climb out of the valley.  From there, it’s a mostly-downhill ride along Cache Creek as it empties out into the Sacramento Valley. We’ll ride by the newly expanded Cache Creek Casino Resort before stopping for the night in Woodland.

Day 4 (50 miles) The easiest day of the ride and final stage is completed with a flat 50 miles from Woodland to Winters to Davis and then back to Sacramento.

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